Improvement in bottle attachments



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. BOARD AND ANDREW J. BASTINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE ATTACHMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,132, dated July 25,1876; application filed January 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN F. HOARD and ANDREW J. BAsTINE, each ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulAttachment to Bottles, said attachment being applied to all kinds ofglass bottles, earthen jugs, or vessels of any shape, as may be desired;and that the following is afull, clear, and precise description of thesame, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this descriptionand specification.

This invention consists of an inclosure or box on one or more, sidesorbottom of any kind of a bottle, it being formed by having, when thebottle is cast or molded, a flange,

groove, or way, cast at each edge or side of a.

concave indenture or panel of the bottle, running parallel, each flange,groove, or way, to incline in opposite directions, as represented bythetwo flanges marked A, in Fig. 2.

The flanges at the ends of the concave may not incline either way, butmay be perfectly even. B is a slide or cover made of glass, tin, brass,gutta-percha, or any other suitable material, with curved edges to matchor correspond with the edges'ot the flange or groove A, sb that bysliding the cover B with the edges catching over the flanges A, as seenin Fig. 1, it forms an inclosure or box. It could also be formed byhaving the flanges incline toward each other and pushing a slide downbetween them, or a groove could be cast or molded in the bottle, and thecover be made to spring over and clasp tight within the groove.

This attachment can be applied to any shaped bottle-round or square-forthe purpose of containing an advertisement, circular. or pamphlet of anykind, or directions for using any ingredients which the bottle maycontain, or to hold a medicinal powder, drug, or cosmetic of any kind asmay be required by a patent-medicine proprietor or advertiser.

The object of our invention is to enable an advertising medium of anydescription or valuable recipe to accompany a bottle, it being foldedneatly in said inclosure or box and sealed therein, it going directlyinto the hands of the consumer without said bottle being wrapped orinclosed in printed sheets, which are liable tobe torn, soiled, anddestroyed; therefore, I

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction of an attachment or box in combination with a bottle,jug, or jar, made of glass or other material, in the manner and for thepurpose as herein set forth.

BENJAMIN F. HOARD. ANDREW J. BASTINE. v Witnesses:

J OHN T. CORNELL, ALFRED J. MCCOLLOUGH.

